52 Weeks of Cookies: How One Mom Refused to Be Beaten by Her Son's Deployment

The recipes and techniques that one mother used to turn a year of her son's military service in Iraq into a year of care packages brimming with cookies.

Single mother Maggie McCreath couldn't decide which was worse: the fact that her only son (not yet twenty-one) was off to war in Iraq for the second time or the fact that they had only five days to prepare. Even more frightening, she knew that he would be part of the Surge and, as a paratrooper in the 82nd Division of the Army, the tip ...